Romance

Looking at beautiful romantic art. Liking the emptiness and the similarities.

Ryan Mcginley

Peter Doig

Gallery finds NY

I went to a few smaller galleries while in New York quite a while ago now. These were from Clare Grill's exhibition at Jen Beckman gallery on Spring Street. I love the soft Michael Borremans, Luc Tuymans feel about these paintings, while still being strong and not too wishy washy.

Clare Grill

Power lines mach II

While trawling the web today, came across this artist, whose paintings are depressingly similar to my newest travel project. I guess it was inevitable that I would not be the first to be stunned by the melodrama of these lines across infinity...

Images from Granthaffner.com

Occupiers

Things that I have been occupied with while travelling, apart from travel, and the Internet... This is basically all the painting/art I have done, realised I kind of hate watercolours. Oh well only 8 months more to perfect them.

Glenn Brown in Budapest

While in Budapest I went to the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art. Both the Ludwig and the Contemporary Art Museum in Budapest were hosting rival contemporary European video art exhibitions. But I felt that I had seen about as much video art as I could for the time being, so just viewed the Glenn Brown exhibition and the permanent collection at the Ludwig. This made the museum entrance fee kind of a rip off, but I was so confused by the HUF to Australian dollar conversion rate (100 HUF = $0.57AU) that at the time I had no idea how much it cost.

I never really got into Glenn Brown's work, only viewing it briefly in the many Art Now type books in which he is featured, but seeing it in person I have a new appreciation. The painting's surfaces are ridiculously flat and smooth. However, many of his paintings include painted depictions of brush strokes, so it produces kind of a tromp l'oeil effect. This was pretty effective I was often left wondering whether I was actually looking at his paintings, or just prints stuck on canvas. However this did not detract from their interest. They were surprisingly beautiful in the flesh.

The rest of the Ludwig collection was quite nice too, with a bigger emphasis on European artists, and especially painters, which for me is a bonus, however it felt quite small after all the American galleries. WHich was in a way nice not feeling overwhelmed by the volume of work seen, and actually being able to appreciate it and allow it to sink in.

Images from Ludwig Museum, Tate